A Color Map of the Sun - discussion thread

If you follow Derek or anyone on PLM you probably have downloaded, or heard of Derek's new Pretty Lights album, "A Color Map of The Sun". If not, heres a great opportunity to discover new music. I streamed the album when it was available for stream a few days ago, but he also released a second album of all the live studio sessions, basically all the instrumentals that he sampled from. The whole album is a pretty amazing work of art, and he describes it as "analog electronic" or an electronic album made completely of original music of classic instruments. This is the first album release from him in two and a half years, and if you're a pretty lights fan, you probably have felt my pain of anticipation. In order to fully appreciate this album you should watch the short documentary about how it was made.

My ears are in love with his work. To me, it's genius eletronic music, I didn't find anything similar, he's got his own style and really masters it, he's pushing music way further than what anybody could think of.

Havn't listened his album yet. Would love to have in LP though !

- "There's a thin line between adventure and suicide, the thinner the line the better the adventure"

I love it! Torrented it a few days ago since I couldn't make myself wait haha, but it's awesome. The only thing I'm wondering is if there will be an option to download a higher quality version (possibly lossless? flac wav etc)

Also I find it funny how all of these artists are being hipsters and going back to analog (daft punk and pl off the top of my head). It'd be cool to somehow hear a comparison of all digital vs the vinyl version.

Well...i wouldn't say they're being "hipsters" haha. I think Derek wanted to make something more complex, more original and raw. By going "back to analog" he was creating the source of his inspiration, in other words, rather than sampling, creating the records in which he sampled from.

Imagine if your dick was so long you could wear it as a belt. Ive always had this stupid thought that a girl would come up to rub it because it was such a nice belt. Then you would get a boner and it would whip out and slap her.Just a thought. -radtad

Mac. It's working for other Zip files, just not this one for some reason.

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Imagine if your dick was so long you could wear it as a belt. Ive always had this stupid thought that a girl would come up to rub it because it was such a nice belt. Then you would get a boner and it would whip out and slap her.Just a thought. -radtad

I don't know if I'd necessarily call it hipster - its kind of like shooting film as opposed to digital. Film just naturally looks good, in the same way that analog naturally sounds good. Also, analog gear allows you to play an instrument, instead of just using a piece of software. There's something to be said for the level of tactile control and physical feedback you get from analog gear as opposed to digital.

Also, you wouldn't be able to hear a difference in the digital and vinyl versions because all the recording is being done digitally. A lossless version of a modern recording is going to sound just as good as the vinyl will, because both the digital and physical copies are being created from the same source files using the same sample rate.

I agree, I don't even think it could be compared to any new releases, it's on such a higher level of musical and creative talent than anything else. Also, it feels weird to classify pretty lights as EDM, putting pretty lights in the same genre as avicii or deadmau5 just feels degrading and wrong, Derek's music is so much more organic and complex...